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Decoder with Nilay Patel

How Robinhood is building the future of investing, with chief product officer Aparna Chennapragada

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.23.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Aparna Chennapragada is the chief product officer at Robinhood, the popular stock and crypto trading app. And we have some news to discuss: Robinhood is launching a new cash card today that allows people to spend money directly out of their Robinhood account and set up various plans to automatically invest by rounding up purchase amounts to the nearest dollar and putting the difference in various investments. Links: How r/wallstreetbets gamed the stock of GameStop The chicken and the pig Google is reportedly removing Google Now Launcher from the Play Store Robinhood Snacks Robinhood buys Say Technologies for $140M to improve shareholder-company relations Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/22753372 Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:47.2

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0:52.2

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0:59.5

Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil Apatel, Editor and Chief of the Verge, and Decoder

1:05.5

is my show about big ideas and other problems. Today I'm talking to Uperna Chena Pregada,

1:10.9

she's the Chief Product Officer at Robinhood. That's the popular stock and crypto trading

1:15.8

app. And we've got some news to discuss. Robinhood is launching a new cash card today that

1:21.8

allows people to spend money directly out of the Robinhood account and set up various

1:26.1

plans to automatically invest by rounding up purchase amounts to the nearest dollar,

1:30.7

and putting the difference in various investments. Now, Uperna has a fascinating background. She

1:36.4

was at Google for a long time where she ran product teams for search and shopping and

1:41.8

served as technical advisor to the CEO. She's actually all over the Verge. We've talked

1:46.0

to her a lot about various Google product launches over the years. So first I wanted to

1:50.5

know why she left a big company like Google for a startup. Especially one like Robinhood

1:54.9

that works in a complicated and heavily regulated space like finance. I also wanted to know

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